Behind the Bearcat

This week Travis and Hannah chat with the new Career Services Graduate Assistant, Samantha Cress, about discovering your career is outside your major, a gap year working as a bartender and what it's like to work for Career Services at Northwest.

Behind the Bearcat is back for Season 2! This week Hannah and Travis talk about what they learned in COVID and plans for season 2. Make sure to follow on your podcast platform of choice and follow us on YouTube. https://www.nwmissouri.edu/career/podcast.htm

Travis has a quick update on our plans for Season 2 of Behind the Bearcat.

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week Travis is working from home and takes a look back on Season One of Behind the Bearcat and tells you our plans for Season Two.

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Asma Hassan, Executive President of Northwest Student Senate, about preparing for law school, the pressures of being a first-gen...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Dr. Peter Adam, Assistant Professor in the Northwest Department of Natural Sciences, about scientific research, being successful...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Bob Machovsky, Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving, about what alumni relations does, being in a doctoral program and...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Tye Parsons, Grants Coordinator for Northwest about the value of writing, being an adult graduate student and working in local a...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Jesse Reed, Career Ambassador, Speaking Bearcat and president of the Cyber Defense Club about what a Career Ambassador actually...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Tubias Johnson, president of the Northwest Black Student Union, about TRIO and Student Support Services, being a first generatio...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Andrew Wegley, Managing Editor at the Northwest Missourian, about being fired from a part-time job, sports storytelling and bein...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Dr. Rick Toomey, Associate Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Natural Sciences, about the culture shock of moving from...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Carolyn Johnson, a Research Librarian – Outreach for B.D. Owens Library, about making customers smile, information science and s...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Jason Offutt, Senior Instructor in the School of Communication and Mass Media and Author, about learning to listen versus simply...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Career Services Graduate Assistant, Mondesi Gutierrez, about coming to Northwest from California, being a student athlete and th...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk to Steven Chappell, Director of Northwest Student Media and Instructor in the Northwest School of Communication and Mass Media, about...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Dr. Joy Daggs, Associate Professor in the Northwest School of Communication and Mass Media, about her academic journey, the impo...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Lily White, Executive Director of the Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce, about what a Chamber of Commerce does, learning to...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Alex Kirt, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Mass Media, about being a traveling musician, not allowing you...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Brian Swafford, Northwest Director of Forensics and Senior Instructor in the School of Communication and Mass Media, about winni...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Adam Gonzales, Coordinator of Diversity & Inclusion about his journey in the catholic seminary, a lifelong draw to teaching and...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Lucy Hilliard, Graduate Assistant in the Northwest International Involvement Center about working as a graduate student, the pow...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear the stories of how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Egon Heidendal, Assistant Vice President of Northwest Institutional Research and Effectiveness about studying abroad in the US a...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Northwest Senior Instructor of Language, Literature and Writing, Stancy Bond about how she made the journey from Mississippi to Northwest, bein...

Hannah Christian and Travis Kline with the Northwest Career Services office want to introduce you to the story behind the amazing people at Northwest Missouri State University and hear how they got to where they are in their careers. This week we talk with Northwest Professor of Fine and Performing Arts, Pat Immel about managing a KFC and the importance of finding your "one thing" and saying no.